Fasting rejuvenates aging stem cells.
MIT News reports on a study that turns back the clock, at least as far as intestinal cells are concerned. Mice who’ve done without food […]
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Science Art: Tab X from Ueber den Pollen by Carl Julius Fritzsche, 1837.
Where plants come from. (And hay fever.) These are as seen through a pretty powerful microscope – magnified 500 times – and drawn by a […]
Two new kinds of time crystals.
Science News looks at a strange structure of matter (one we’ve discussed on here in the past) that regularly repeats itself like a crystal… but […]
Island lizards are evolving – in one year’s time.
Scientific American steps into the fast lane, unexpectedly, on the island of Redonda. People wiped out the local (invasive) populations of rats and goats, and […]
Disembodied brains kept alive for 36 hours.
I’m not sure how new this science really is – it’s pigs, by the way, not people, in case you were worried – but The […]
Science Art: NASA spacecraft comparison, by D. Meltzer.
Click to embiggen vastly. You can see the astronauts’ faces! “Here am I floating in a tin can,” indeed. Here’s how much room some of […]
Neanderthals cruised the Mediterranean
I mean, who wouldn’t, really? Science looks back at evidence that Stone Age people traveled to Naxos, Crete, and other islands across the sun-kissed Med: […]
Science Art: Selector Used for Timing Supervisory Signals, from The Bell System Technical Journal
Click to embiggen Mmm. Switches. Communication.
Sigh. Maybe a sweet potato *doesn’t* mean that prehistoric Polynesians visited South America after all.
The Guardian has some sweet potato evolutionary research that unintentionally drives a wedge in the idea that the presence of the humble yam in both […]
Chronotherapy is the discipline of giving medicine according to your body clock.
Nature explores the data being gathered about the surprising significance of time-of-day to effective medical treatment: More than four decades of studies describe how accounting […]
Science Art: Bearing Fault Detector, 1975
Click to embiggen NASA wants you to know they’re pretty handy here on Earth, too. This here shows a way to make trains and other […]
The Gulf Stream is weaker than it’s been for 1,600 years.
The Guardian looks at one of the less discussed elements of climate change – with a once-dependable ocean current slowing, slowing, slowing down in a […]
Giant genitals were the downfall of some ancient crustaceans
I can’t beat Nature‘s headline, so I won’t even try. “Giant genitals were the downfall of some ancient crustaceans.” The creatures from the Late Cretaceous […]
Extinct lizard had four eyes.
LiveScience introduces us to Saniwa ensidens, a now-extinct monitor lizard from Wyoming that had an eye on either side of its head and two more […]
Science Art: A View From A Launch, by NASA/Joel Kowsky
Click to embiggen This is the bus that takes the astronauts to work at the space station. It’s a long commute for a longer shift […]